Why do you write poetry?

-I know it seems like a simple question, but I'm serious. If it's for expressing yourself or releasing emotions why not short stories or writing music?



I'm just curious, why did you guys choose poetry? Did you get introduced to it at a young age? In school?I didn't know myself up until a while ago. I had really think about it, because I myself have asked this question more than once.

I write because I am short and plain looking, I am smart but so are all my brothers. I am funny but so are all my brothers. I don't get into trouble but none of my brothers do either. My eldest brother was always known as the eldest, but he grew into the footballer and hard worker. My youngest as the baby in the family, he is growing to be a historian. I share the middle child title with my older brother. He was always an artist. I had nothing really, except a few words I could spin well. So now, even though the don't read anything, I am my family's poet/writer. It is honestly the only unique thing I don't have to work at, it seems to come naturally enough. I write poetry because I have to. Without it I don't really have an identity.



I wasn't taught it at school I didn't actually read a poem [besides nursery rhymes] until I went to secondary school [12/13 years old]. I wrote my first for a competition two years before that, and then I wrote my second a year after that for the same competition. Then I stopped [that was 5/6 years ago] and didn't write another until 7 or 8 months ago. I haven't really stopped much since then though. I have started writing my first prose piece but stuff keeps getting in the way :)I have been writing fiction since I was a child, and poetry at least since I was about 14 or 15. I wrote stories because I had something to say and a very strange imagination.



I admire great poetry (although not most "great" poets,) and although I suck at writing poetry, I keep trying. In Yahoo, I am well above average, so it feeds the illusion that I don't suck anymore, which energizes me to write more. When trolls and uncontrolled critics decide to trash me, it makes my day because they only criticize things that are successful.



I stopped writing fiction because after 40 years of writing I still sucked. Poetry fills the void of that 40 year vocation gone bad. Poetry means I haven't wasted 50 years of my life completely.
Just releasing emotions not expressing myself,



I've written stories before and music didn't like it quite well,

stories for me have to be long and music I'd rather sing then

write it down, I've always sang actually



I got introduced to it by one of my friends, she read me one of her poems

and I got inspired but didn't write anything down, from then on

I would go to this website called quizilla that had many poems as she told me

Then I was taking a shower and a poem came to me, when

I went to write it down it no longer was a poem, and was ruined it wasn't

how I wanted it in my eyes, the thought came too soon,

but I didn't give up on it, I posted up the poem and from then on

I just kept on writing...usually it's my observations and how I am feeling not

much expressing myself though



And sorry for this being so long, what about yourself?

And before I also did drawings gave up on that( was actually really good at it)..

now it's poems and video editing
Personally, I write poetry because it's a creative way to express myself. Stories takes too long for me to write and I find music to be really difficult to write. Being a writer, I find poetry to be easy and quick to write when I want to say what I need to say. For instance, during school, we had a literary magazine and I could either write a story or poem. I decided that I would write a poem about the Holocaust, since it's such a delicate subject and writing a story could be too long or I could word something that makes it sound insensitive. It ended up getting hugely praised and loved by everyone. But this is just my opinion.
I love poetry. Sometimes I read slowly just to savor the words the writer chose. I am a poet, but I am in a dry spell. I hear a line or two in my head, but I never sit and work with it. I'm hoping this will pass soon.



I love to feel the flow of words as if they are water streaming over a bed of rocks or the tide ebbing. I also enjoy the energy, when the words make my heart race. I connect to the emotions, and it is wonderful to read someones work that touches me, brings tears or laughter, or stays in my mind.



One of my poems "TO:" is on the internet and has been translated into several languages because it reaches people, and that brings joy to me.

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I was a painter - mixed media - much graphite as well. I worked on my art for most of my life, obtained advanced degrees etc.

My art was catharsis for me and when an illness and medications robbed me of my thoughts and steady hand, I was desolate.

I had no way to express myself.

Then I found this section and began learning that I could use the words in my head to express memories, emotions, epiphanies.

I am not skilled - but it fills that overbearing void of losing my art.

Poetry is not my vocation - but for me, I can try to learn from others who do have that.

And it helps.
Many eons ago,i used to write letters to the editor.Everyone said they were good.

then i had a security job,sitting and boring.I can draw. Also.I started getting mad

at all the news i read or saw.It was when rap was starting.three people asked me to write some.

I did and they read them during some poetry nights.Darned if i would.I saved a lot.

Sometimes just tone them DOWN..for here. .thanks
When I began it was a case of being inspired by different writers and trying to emulate them I did not have my own voice I was imitation Emily Dickenson for example. As time went by I developed my style.

I try to take an experience and boil it down to the essence so that if I use the word I in my poem the reader thinks of himself .
I write poetry because I love the way it seem to fill my heart when I read it. I can not place my poetry to music in my head. I chose poetry in short because it makes me feel good to express the beauty of the world around me, and let my heart choose the rhythm and music:)
I enjoy writing, in whatever sense, and have been writing since I learned how.



Poetry is an intimate way to express.

Poetry is or can be, like pouring fluid

Poetry can involve all our senses



I just way enjoy readin it and writin it.
Expression is art :) Poetry is not just an art of words though; it's also the art of how we use words.
Because somebody has to do it. *pulls sunglasses down and walks into the sunset*
Simply to tell a story that I hope readers will enjoy. Nothing more, nothing less.
music is poetry, and that's what i write
It is cathartic therapy. Can't you see how well its worked?
Because is the language of the heart.